Maybe it's the fact that I feel like summer is never going to end where I live, but the second and third photo on the top row of the Mixed Media Place mood board, at first glance, looked like ice on the foliage. I'm not exactly a person who likes being cold, and I live in a southern state, but I've had it with summer this year! It's the middle of September and we are still hitting the mid-90s! Which, according to the weather last night, is a full ten degrees above average! Too, too much I tell ya!
Beside the thought of ice, I really loved the colors in general on the mood board! It's filled with most of my favorites! But once I had blue + white + ICE!! on my mind, I had to go with it! Below the mood board you will find a process video, some more photos, and a full product list.
Process Video:
Close-up Photos:
Products
AB Studio
Chipboard Background 30x30 (centimeters) ID-4
Creative Embellishments
Holly and Berry Flourish
Shimmerz
Vibez
Frost Bite
Snow Way Man
DecoArt
Weathered Wood
Crackle Medium
Ranger
Tim Holtz
Distress Crackle Paint
Clear Rock Candy
Distress Glitter
Clear Rock Candy
Embossing Powder
Blue
Snowflake Tinsel
Simon Says Stamp
Embossing and Watermark Ink
Clear
Krylon
Workable Fixatif
Liquitex
Gloss Gel
Unknown
All the artificial foliage. I bought it at JoAnn's ... last year.
For this project I was inspired by the colors found on the July, Mixed Media Place, mood board, most specifically the yellows, reds, and seafoam green. Especially since the green on the ReneaBouquets Fairy "Belle" was a fantastic match!
Below the mood board you'll find a process video, some close up photos, and a product list.
Process Video:
Close-ups:
And, because she happened to come along, Lucy (Great Dane) is helping to demonstrate how well the mirror works!
I don't know if I should say I created these for the June Mixed Media Place challenge, but will be swapping them, or if it would be more accurate to say the June Mixed Media Place challenge helped me put together these ATCs for the "Favorite Product and/or Technique" category of the swap over at scrapbook.com! They both helped each other along in the end!
I love the mood board this month over at Mixed Media Place. The wonderful colors of the forest really spoke to me! I'm also participating in the ATC swap over at scrapbook.com, hosted by Marci (you can find her here and here), and was still "needing" to make my "Favorite Product and/or Technique" batch! I have a little of both on these cards! I love, love, LOVE Finnabair's products by Prima, and I adore using her waxes, but I also love mica powders (in this case I used Lindy's Magical Shakers), and Tim Holtz was my first designer love (I've been collecting Tim Holtz since shortly after I first started scrapbooking!).
(Below you can find a process video, more photos, & a product list.)
The Mixed Media Place June Mood Board for the June challenge.
Process Video:
I think one of my favorite things about ATCs is they help me use up scraps & partial packages, plus I find them to be very freeing, even I can only fit so much on a 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" surface!
With these ATCs I didn't cut into any new cardstock or open any new packages! In fact I finished off one of the Prima packages & the Little Birdie package in addition to getting rid of a teeny tiny bit of my vast scrap collection! (Okay, maybe not vast...it could be worse I suppose!)
Also, to make projects go faster, when I have some spare time I will make up batches of pieces from my various moulds. I can't say I have an absolute preference of which resin to use, both of the ones used to make these keys have a purpose. Amazing Cast Resin sets up F.A.S.T!! And I mean you better have a plan of action and work in small batches! This is great when I don't have the time to wait for the Art 'N Glow resin to set. However, I love the Art 'N Glow because it mixes up thinner, and I have a work time of 45 minutes! The thinner is great for the smaller moulds I have, and the longer time is better because I can pour slow and sure! (It does, however, have a 24 hour cure time.)
**Note: I'd wear gloves. The Amazing Cast Resin gets real hot, real fast (it's best not to ask why I know this so well!). Gloves will help you peel that off quick! The Art 'N Glow is just practically impossible to wash off with soap and water. It's very sticky! (Again, don't ask! LOL)
I love water lily's, I think they are so beautiful floating out on a pond, so I was, of course, immediately drawn to, and inspired by, the water lily in the Mixed Media Place's May Mood Board!
I just couldn't help myself! I have a pond on my property, but I have yet to get the water lily's I want for it, so I decided to make one! (I think the husband worries they will interfere with fishing too much!)
I LOVED the colors of the mood board this month, and I'm not even the biggest fan of pinks! Besides the colors, the mushroom put me in a fantasy mindset, when for me equals fairies!!
I don't have a lot of rhyme or reason with this canvas, and originally I had hoped to recreate the mushroom...somehow...but as it so often happens, the project took on a life of it's own! The pink tree is actually a photo I took, ran through Photoshop, printed on regular paper, and transferred! It didn't transfer quite how I had planned, so I had to get "creative" with the Shimmerz paste! 😂
The fairy was black chipboard, but I used some white gesso before painting it with the Pink-Blue Opal Magic and adding a T-H-I-N coat of the Peacock Metallique Wax!
When I first saw the challenge board for the February Mixed Media Place Challenge I was immediately drawn to the mushroom. I don't know why, but I love mushrooms...artistically. For food I can tolerate them to an extent. A very small extent! (except the white 'button' mushrooms, those are just a big ol' NO!). Okay, that's all besides the point, so back to my canvas.
I loved the color of the mushroom, and I am so over winter that I had no desire to do a winter themed project, but I also love the sepia of the top left photo, the close up of the water drop (I think that's what it is) in the top center photo, and the color of the leaves of the top right photo. The mushroom and the three top photos were my main inspiration for my project. At first I had thought I would somehow use mushrooms, but after I did the paint pour I realized I needed something more. I don't know how I came around to gears and rust paste, but it was something like this:
"I like the sepia and gold leaves, they look old. Those leaves look metallic. Rust is old. I have rust pastes. I also have some gold wax...and some metal flowers...and I made a bunch of resin gears & butterflies to have on hand..."
Basically, I think in run-on and/or incomplete sentences. The thoughts just go sometimes, and this time I went them!
I added the cabochon's because the white space needed something, but I didn't need more color! (Plus, they are what I thought of with the top middle photo!)
